To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

-- Maya Angelou

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It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ~

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I write some country music. There’s a song called ‘I Hope You Dance.’ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

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The ache for home lives in all of us.

-- Maya Angelou

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